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Thursday, April 26, 2012

300 Words or Less: Call for Madness

300 Thursday again, where I'm posting bits of original work --
teasers from the novel I'm working on, some of my favorite poetry or
prose I've done in the last few years, maybe some flash fiction
or short essays, etc. -- all within 300 words or less.

Today's tiny pleasantry is a plea for participation:

Call for Madness

Are you mad for mad libs like me? Yes or no, friend or foe, please
answer my plea -- these are my needs:

5. Size adverb **Update: me thinks I was tired when I wrote this? I meant to say adjective. Appologies for any confusion.

6. Color adverb **Update: again, I meant adjective. Sorry y'all.

7. Scary person, thing, or
animal

8. Common greeting

9. A complete thought, random
or otherwise

10. Verb ending in “ed”

11. What would your reply be
to someone saying, “You don’t look like you want to do this. Are you afraid?”

12. Place

13. Type of building

14. Flat object

15. Verb

There are multiple ways to reply: in the comments, any of the "contact me" options, or answer on your own blog/FB (or whatever social networking forum you prefer) account and then let me know so I can come take a look.

Check back tomorrow and you'll have your very own Mad Masterpiece. What better way to start off your weekend?

Thanks y'all, and just one more day til Friday? Righteous.

Moment of Magic today:

This is exactly how I was saying, "Righteous" above. And does anyone else feel like this has been how their week's going?

19 comments:

1. Number--four2. Two things you need to survive--a towel and a set of chopsticks3. Favorite Season--Eureka season 4 (you know, the TV show)4. Onomatopoeia for something repeating three times (ex: “thwack, thwack, thwack”) --hiccup, hicCUP, HICCUP!5. Size adverb--extraordinarily6. Color adverb--quite7. Scary person, thing, or animal--an oversized bumblebee in my living room!8. Common greeting--Bonjour!9. A complete thought, random or otherwise--I got a letter from a past landlord this morning, telling me I owe money when I was expecting a check for a few hundred dollars as a return on our deposit. That wasn't a fun letter.10. Verb ending in “ed”--tickled11. What would your reply be to someone saying, “You don’t look like you want to do this. Are you afraid?”--Of course I'm afraid! I'd be crazy not to be! I'm about ready to pee my pants, but thanks for pointing it out and ruining my hopes of putting on a brave face.12. Place--Belgium13. Type of building--garage14. Flat object--tissue box15. Verb--laugh

Perfect! This is wonderful! Thanks for participating -- I love it. I messed up on 5 and 6, though, so I'm planning on coming to track you down to see if you can update those... ready or not, here I come.

Ok, that was fun and you ade my Random Thursday much more interesting, so thank you very much. http://sleepyjoes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/random-thursdays-goes-mad-lib.html

I have no idea where this is going but I am so excited for tomorrow :-D

And also, yay for Friday...it has been one long week! It's a shame next week is shaping up to be even longer with some nerve wracking additions that this week didn't have. Hey ho, I'm sure you'll cheer me up!

I love that you completely incorporated it into your post today. How awesome is that. I love your answers and I'm excited for tomorrow. I love Fridays, generally speaking, but I think this one I'll love just a bit more :)

Here's to next week being magical and wonderful and all things delightful, even though it's foreseen to be long *clinks proverbial glass*

1. 472. Water & hope3. Spring 4. knock, knock, knock5. Ginormous 6. purple7. scary thing is also the same as number 4. Knock, knock, knock.8. How's it. That is all they say in Hawaii, not how is it going.9. I have a mouse in my house! Yeah, for reals! I spent an hour last night trying to catch it but the slippery bugger got away. The best part is that NONE of my 3 cats wanted to help. This morning I still couldn't answer the question: Why do I have cats? 10. saucaged: when you've eaten 3 double decker tacos you feel like a stuffed saucage. 11. Bloody right, I am.12. The beach. I would love to be there now.13. Shoebox. That is the actual size of my apartment and the bloody mouse still got away!14. Canon cat. Or at lease he thinks he is when he streches all the way out. 15. TiredKins

1. Number - 422. Two things you need to survive - Bayer aspirin and a prayer3. Favorite Season - Baseball4. Onomatopoeia for something repeating three times (ex: “thwack, thwack, thwack”) - buzz buzz buzz5. Size adverb **Update: me thinks I was tired when I wrote this? I meant to say adjective. Appologies for any confusion. - cozy6. Color adverb **Update: again, I meant adjective. Sorry y'all. - harsh7. Scary person, thing, or animal - voodoo doll8. Common greeting - "You're never going to believe it!" (this is what I say to my boss)9. A complete thought, random or otherwise - "I'd like to see Charles Manson paroled so I can see how far he'd make it on "Dancing With The Stars"."10. Verb ending in “ed” - writhed11. What would your reply be to someone saying, “You don’t look like you want to do this. Are you afraid?” - "Obviously I don't want to do this, but how else am I going to earn the respect of my mother?"12. Place - on top of a beached whale13. Type of building - cathedral14. Flat object - fan blade15. Verb - sniff

I know, I know. *Sigh* Is it obvious yet that I'm not a professional mad libs writer? I was putting Beta to bed tonight and realized, "Duh, Deb. You could have just said 'color,' not 'color adjective.'" because yes, that's what I was going for. Oh well. I should have had you read the rough draft before I posted it :)